Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President and his wife arrived slightly out of breath after climbing to the fourth floor, sipped a cup of tea, talked about freshman life and examinations for about ten minutes, and them departed or a Leverett House dinner. Conant returned Monday from a four day trip to Houston, Texas...
...yesterday evening four girls reported losses from their rooms of $28, $3.50, $5, and $7, respectively. The robbery could only have occurred during dinner...
...told that century-old tradition permitted him, as a head of state, to make and receive one request during his visit. He asked a pardon for all cadets undergoing punishment for breaches of discipline, and some 80 promptly had their privileges restored. At Hyde Park, where he had Thanksgiving dinner with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, he spied a handsome Persian rug which he had presented to F.D.R. six years ago. Beaming, he got down on his knees, fingered it, and made a short talk on the technique of Oriental rug making. (The test of a good Persian rug: at least...
...farmers as free homesteads, Treasury funds to Union soldiers as pensions. It won election after election. "What could you do with a party that had emancipated the slave, saved the Union, given everybody a bounty in land or tariff, assured businessmen of prosperity and poor men of a full dinner pail...
...other Ivy group officials had expressed views on this subject earlier in the week, and their comments were re-circulated yesterday. President Dwight D. Eisenhower of Columbia called for alumni support at a dinner Tuesday. "Unashemedly, I believe a University such as this should turn out top flight teams... I like to run over the other guy as much as he likes to run over...